Capsules can be an efficient means of administering various medicines – granules, pellets, pastes or liquid medicines. Thanks to modern materials and manufacturing processes, manufacturers have also created capsules with controlled-release features designed to lessen gastrointestinal irritation.
From a patient’s point of view, capsules resemble tablets in terms of appearance and swallowing ease, masking any unpleasant tastes or odours and offering color codes for easy identification.
Ease of Use
A capsule medication contains powdered or liquid substances sealed within its own container. Capsules have many advantages and are commonly used to deliver medications, dietary supplements, vitamins, and more.
Capsules can be filled with dry powders, granules, pellets, microparticles or multitablets and are ideal early on in the development process of drug formulation. Furthermore, capsules may consist of two halves: a smaller diameter body sealed using a larger diameter “cap”.
Capsules offer many advantages for individuals taking supplements. Their simple design enables reliable dosing and adherence, helping individuals adhere to their supplement plans more easily. Furthermore, capsules protect sensitive ingredients like vitamins and probiotics from degradation by light, air and moisture exposure, helping preserve potency and effectiveness until consumption.
Ease of Dosing
People who struggle with swallowing pills may find taking capsules easier, as it enables them to open them, draw out the desired liquid dose into an oral syringe, and administer. This method may prove particularly helpful when traveling or caring for children who may have low tolerance levels.
Some capsules can also be dispersed into water, juice or squash for easier administration – this information should be printed on their medicine label. Before making any decisions in this regard it’s wise to speak to either their physician, pharmacist or nurse first as certain capsules cannot be split in half due to special release properties (like extended release drugs ) or narrow therapeutic benefits that would cause toxic side-effects if eaten that way.
LefanCaps provides electron balances with accuracy of 1mg /0.1mg /0.01mg to meet these specific weighing needs and ensure consistent capsule contents, even after being stored for extended periods. This provides assurance of safety when dispensing pills to patients.
Ease of Storage
Capsules are easy to store and take up less space than tablets, making them the ideal packaging format for line extensions and brand renewal. Furthermore, capsules allow pharmaceutical companies to reformulate existing drugs to meet evolving efficacy needs among specific patient populations.
Liquid-filled capsules allow for combination dosing – beads, micro tablets and pellets can all be included alongside their liquid formulation to allow multiple medications that were previously incompatible to be dosed together. They also serve as abuse deterrence – they’re harder to insufflate or inject than soft gels and include built-in tamper proofing measures.
Hard gelatin capsules were traditionally created using animal products such as collagen protein from pork, fish and beef. Thanks to advances in material science, new polymers for capsule shells now exist that offer similar performance and compatibility as gelatin while not using animal proteins; allowing manufacturers to meet rising consumer demand for non-animal ingredients.
Safety
Caps are generally safer to swallow than tablets as they are less likely to leak or rattle in your stomach, masking any unpleasant tastes or smells as well as providing protection from tampering and dose adjustments. Many are designed tamper-resistant.
Capsules provide unique flexibility by accommodating powders, liquids and semisolids within their shells – this enables unique combinations of active ingredients and excipients that meet specific product requirements.
Finally, capsule production results in minimal airborne dust emissions, increasing worker safety when handling highly potent APIs. Furthermore, these hermetic containers reduce leakage risks during both production and storage processes.
